Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and the flashy Ford Thunderbird and Mercedes-Benz sports cars in which he liked to hot-rod it along Thailand's highways and byways. In the tinseled and temple-dotted capital of Bangkok, Westerners liked to dismiss Pibul as just another crooked politician. But he was much more than that...
Presented throughout the dock area twice a year for the past two years, the morality plays have become an East End institution. By their charities, austere life and hard work, the Anglican Franciscans have impressed East Enders, who at first were apt to dismiss them as so many practitioners of the "soul racket." But the East End is still overwhelmingly unchurched. To Father Oswald the plays' purpose is the same one that sent 15th century Christians into England's streets to perform the classic morality play Everyman (in which God dispatches Death to demand an immediate "rekenynge" from...
...estimated $150,000 in the armed forces economy drive (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the U.S. Air Force decided to drop all foreign language courses for the 20,000 children now enrolled in U.S. Air Force schools in Europe and the Middle East. Air Force elementary and high schools will dismiss 119 native teachers whose purpose was to reduce the isolation of American youngsters living abroad. Commented Le Monde of Paris: "It seems a bit astonishing that the United States, which admits the necessity of extending into the cultural domain cooperation among allied countries in NATO, suppresses one of the rare means...
...show's regulars, Joan Terrace, 9, of Brooklyn, Jimmy Walsh, 9, of Hillside, N.J., and their adult guide, lanky Sonny Fox, 32. When they came to photographs of military leaders who served under Truman, Fox pointed to the picture of Douglas MacArthur and said: "Sometimes you have to dismiss generals, don't you, Mr. Truman?" "Yep," agreed Truman. "You hire 'em and you fire 'em, just like any other business." The former President pointed to Omar Bradley's photograph and said: "There's the greatest field general in the history of the country...
...Reason, an engineer tries to dismiss a haunting dream that someone near and dear will die in an air crash on May 14; the story ends in Lady or the Tiger fashion, with the man waiting powerlessly to learn the fate of the plane that is carrying his wife and child to him-on May 14. The Kiss at Croton Falls takes a lighter view of dreams as Mrs, Mull visits companionably each night with her dead husband until he makes the mist ike of bringing a pretty redhead home with him-twice...